JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
The gem in the title to this short post bubbled into view while looking through an issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (March 1950) for a biography of Wernher von Braun. The two-page biographical notice was perfunctory and the war years were sanitized (stating that after interrogation there “was no room for doubt” that von Braun’s real interests were only in interplanetary travel and high altitude research).
The review of the German film on rocket development is another story–I’ve reproduced the eight-page tightly packed review below, as it is very useful and in the face of not having the viewable film it serves as a good outline.
I found the references to “Spaceship I” (pictured above) to be very intriguing, though outside of two images of models for the proposed dirigible-like behemoth almost no other information is presented.
